Free Project Management Professional PMP Exam Practice Test

During the last iteration of a hybrid project, one of the key members of the team wants to leave the project. What should the project manager do to address this concern?

• Keep activities as planned regardless of the resource change.
• Update the burndown chart to reflect this resource's absence.
• Have a meeting with the resource to understand the issue.
• Request an additional resource to finish the project.

A team has individual daily start times for each team member. Sometimes the overlap between team member working hours is short. During thosetimes, the interactions and work as a team are reduced and ineffective.What should the project manager do?

• Inform the team members who are joining late to join early and work together.
• Allocate the overlap time for each team member and ask them to adhere to the schedule.
• Ask the team to define a team charter and agree on core working hours.
• Ask the team to start at the same time to obtain the maximum number of team working hours.

A project manager has been assigned to a new project. There is one team memberwho never says anything during meetings. After meetings, however, the team member sendsdetailed emails with very good suggestions that help with project execution.How should the project manager guide the team members?

• Review the communications management plan with the team members.
• Remind the team members to follow the team charter.
• Motivate the team members to speak freely in the meeting.
• Arrange a team-building activity to involve all team members.

A project team has installed software for the client, passed the knowledge to operations, sent the final report, and celebrated. Then 1 week later,the client sendsa list of requirements that have not been met. The client is requesting to fix the issues quickly and within the initial budget.What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?

• Reviewed the acceptance criteria and obtained client approval.
• Allocated a risk budget for any post-release improvements.
• Conducted a pilot to understand the client's performance parameters.
• Established meetings with the client throughout the project phases.

A marketing team is developing ideas in order to revamp an existing product The marketing executive reaches out to the project manager to make sure that necessary measures are in place for a successful launchOn what should the project manager focus?

• Ensuring that the team is also focused on the overall change management plan
• Determining and aligning performance indicators that will help in assessing successful delivery
• Planning for regular project updates to cover the status of critical deliverables
• Ensuring that the scope management plan is in place to cover all related objectives

During the design phase of a project the project manager notices that the schedule performance index (SPI) is 1 8 and the cost performance index (CPI) is 0 1 In a weekly meeting with top management, the project manager reports concerns about these indicators However the most concerned person was the project sponsor who said that if the trend continues, they will be forced to prematurely close the projectWhat should the project manager do?

• Monitor the project sponsor but understand that it is normal to spend more money in the design phase of a project.
• Stop crashing the schedule
• Manage the project sponsor closely and revise the project's resource management plan to improve indicators
• Use a resource-levelling technique

A project manager is reviewing a draft of the project charter with key stakeholders. During the meeting, a conflict occurs between the sponsor and the product owner.How should the project manager deal with the situation?

• Postpone the meeting and invite a subject matter expert (SME) to join the next meeting.
• Continue the meeting and ask the project sponsor and product owner to take their discussion offline.
• Postpone the meeting and ask the project sponsor and product owner to take their discussion offline.
• Continue the meeting and use facilitation techniques to improve communication within the team.

An agile project team received an assignment to develop an industrial system that interfaces with robots. The project team does not have any previous experienceperforming this type of work. Team members are interested in acquiring such expertise but it may result in a project delay.How should this situation be handled?

• Use a robotics vendor company to develop the interfaces so the team will not be held back by a lack of expertise in this type of work,
• Add an experienced professional to the team to reinforce knowledge sharing and help grow team expertise in the new product
• Create a separate team with experienced members who understand the technology and split the product backlog according to team specialization.
• Hire a consulting company to address the robotic interface questions, when necessary, and to help avoid delays and quality issues.

A compliance strategy was created during the planning phase of a project During execution, the project manager left the organization and another project manager was assigned to the teamWhat should the project manager do first to ensure the project is compliant?

• Meet with the team to discuss compliance concerns
• Review the organizational process assets (OPAs) for compliance topics
• Review the compliance strategy and version history
• Meet with the project sponsor to discuss their compliance concerns

A project manager is assigned to a project that is in development As the project manager reviews the projects progress, they find a few tasks that are behind schedule After investigating the project manager discovers that a few team members were pulled to work on other assignments, which impacted their ability to focus on the project manager's projectWhich two actions can the project manager take to bring the team back on track? (Choose two)

• Establish daily standups to review project progress and track the completion of deliverables
• Allow the team members to catch up at their own pace
• Alert the business stakeholders immediately of the schedule delay.
• Discuss the risk of project delay and work priorities with the respective functional managers
• Work with the team to identify options to accelerate project delivery.